Simon wiesenthal essay

Rev. Peter Gumpel, is a German Jesuit who is assembling documentation to
support the expected beatification of Pope Pius XII. On 2001-AUG-7, he
issued a statement accusing some of the Jewish historians on the Holocaust
Commission of " clearly incorrect behavior ," having helped mount a " slanderous
campaign " against the Roman Catholic Church. 7 He
said that he had met with the group and had answered some of their
questions, and offered to answer the rest at a later time. He wrote that " some
Jewish members in the group had systematically affirmed that they never
received answers to their questions. " He accused them of having " publicly
spread the suspicion " that the Vatican was trying to hide documents " that
in their judgment could be compromising. " There may be a
misunderstanding between Gumpel and the Commission. Expert historians
require documentary support, not just the opinion of one individual. So,
answers by Rev. Gumpel would be insufficient without hard evidence to back
them up.